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Topic: New Zealand

Ad of the Day: Monteith's Crushed Cider Let's alarm our customers, waste their time, and call it a PR masterpiece

It's generally not great when you discover non-food items in your food—a finger in your frozen custard, say, or a mouse stuck to your hot-dog bun. But of course, one…

March 26 2012

A Great Beer Commercial for Guys Who Can't Stand Wine New Zealand brewer just says no

"It was 1987, and New Zealand was going off." That great line launches this amusing spot for DB Export Dry beer (via Colenso BBDO in Auckland), which takes aim at…

March 13 2012

Drag-Queen Tampon Ad Pulled for Offending Transgendered New Zealand spot featured bathroom showdown

Tampon maker Libra has pulled one of its ads from New Zealand television in response to complaints that it ridiculed the country's transgender community. The ad features a blonde woman…

January 04 2012

Mary Gets a Positive Pregnancy Test in Church's Christmas Billboard St. Matthews in the City strikes again

Get a load of this billboard from St. Matthews in the City, a progressive Anglican church in Auckland, New Zealand. I mean, Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Well, only Mary is…

December 16 2011

Hugh Hefner's Ex-Girlfriends Star in Airline's Sheep Boys Ripoff Shannon twins sink even further

Kristina and Karissa Shannon, whom you may remember from when they simultaneously dated Hugh Hefner's living corpse, are now flirting with sheep. Well, not actual sheep—they blow kisses at two…

October 10 2011

Lindsay Lohan Is Latest Sad-Sack Celeb in Air New Zealand Campaign

Air New Zealand continues its train-wreck celebrity series by inviting Lindsay Lohan to sit on the "skycouch" and be peppered with sexual innuendo by the carrier's lascivious, foul-mouthed spokes-squirrel, Rico.…

August 02 2011

Air New Zealand Crashes and Burns With Insipid Hasselhoff Video

Air New Zealand's sub-muppet mascot Rico could be described as appealing only if we change the definition of the word to "grating and unacceptable in the extreme." Likewise, watching the…

July 25 2011

Find Your Canine 'Doggelganger' With This Pedigree App

The Pedigree Adoption Drive in New Zealand has come up with a fun online project called Doggelganger. It's basically human-to-canine pairing software that matches you with your dog doppelganger. Based…

June 09 2011

Mountain Dew Designs Skate Park to Look Like Giant Pinball Machine

Despite its well-known status as nerd fuel, Mountain Dew also has a base constituency of daredevil extreme-sports dude-bros to consider. Plus, the brand has three new flavors coming out. So,…

June 09 2011

Tween Clothing Brand Ripped Over Girl's Topless Ads

Supre, a popular tween-focused fashion retailer in Australia and New Zealand, is pulling ads amid complaints that its new campaign is too sexy. In print and transit ads and on…

June 06 2011

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